Table 3. Common features of Women’s Studies programs.
Women’s Studies minors and baccalaureate programs teach skills and content through certain common structures:
- A required introductory class, which often counts for general education, including material on the experiences of women of color and lesbians.
- Cross listed electives, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, education, and the arts, including one or more courses that focus exclusively on women of color or lesbians
- A required feminist theory class
- Research projects at different levels using a variety of kinds of sources
- A required capstone course or activity
- An internship, service learning or activism component
- Feminist pedagogy: team work or collaborative learning, student-centered classes, active discussions, personal writing or journals, opportunities to apply knowledge to “real world” situations, and a variety of kinds of assignments appropriate to individual learning styles.
Women’s Studies graduate programs teach skills and content through certain common structures:
- A required feminist theory class.
- A required course in feminist research methods.
- An extended research project, thesis, or dissertation.
- Required courses on globalism, US women of color, or both.
- Cross-listed or interdisciplinary electives, which most commonly include classes on women in literature, LGBT issues, feminist pedagogy, and violence against women.
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The audio conference included:
- Beverly Guy Sheftall, Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper, Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College
- Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President at the American Association for Colleges and Universities
- Kristine Blair, Professor and Chair of English at Bowling Green State University
- Amy Levin moderated.
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